Obsession
When Bear wishes upon a One Wish Willow for his longtime crush to fall madly in love with him, he sets off a horrific and bloody chain of events in this darkly comic, twisted horror fable from writer/director Curry Barker.
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Friday, May 8, 2026
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What's the difference between being a hopeless romantic and being utterly, destructively hopeless?
You're about to find out. You've met people like Bear (Michael Johnston, "Teen Wolf," SIFF 2016's Slash): handsome but awkward, not very well socialized, unambitious. He works at Cassell's Music with goodhearted Nikki (India Navarrette, "13 Reasons Why"), who he's been madly in love with since childhood. And he really, really wants to ask her out. But when a flirtation goes awry, he's back to square one. What's a soft-spoken guy to do? Work on himself? Maybe gain a skosh of confidence? Nah. Go to a kitschy New Age store and purchase a One Wish Willow for $6.99? Now we're talking.
With one crack of this novelty item, which purports to grant a single wish, he verbalizes his deepest desire: for Nikki to make him his entire world. And just like that, she's gone from cold to hot and can't keep her hands off him. Nothing could go amiss, right? WRONG, you fool! As their mutual friends become justifiably suspicious of this sudden shift in their dynamic, the seemingly possessed Nikki goes from lovestruck to disturbingly clingy to…well…
Writer/director Curry Barker's Obsession is a darkly funny, delectably twisted horror fable that's not for the faint of heart. See it with an audience and get ready to squirm in your seat and mutter, "No, goddamn it…" under your breath with a few hundred strangers. Because cautionary tales never hurt so good.
—Marcus Gorman
- Director: Curry Barker
- Principal Cast: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 109 min.
- Producer: James Harris, Haley Nicole Johnson, Christian Mercuri, Roman Viaris
- Screenplay: Curry Barker
- Cinematographers: Taylor Clemons
- Editors: Curry Barker
- Music: Rock Burwell
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: Milk & Serial (2024)
- Language: English
- US Distributor: Focus Features
- International Sales: Capstone Pictures